I am 56 and live in Chicago.
In Nov. I was diagnosed with diabetes and was terrified.
Routine office visit urine test and it had been about 4 years since my
last check-up.

there was a news item that found that being out in the sun for a little
as 15 minutes a day, could change the gleason score if you were to
develop pca.  
scientists said that taking vitamins do not have the same effect as

My comments are provided mostly to benefit, I hope, those folks
concerned about acquiring PCa or those recently diagnosed.  This
information is likely known to those of you have have dealt with PCa
for some period of time.

Below is an excerpt from a previous post I read. Is this really the case? I
hadn't heard this before and am now quite concerned. This means a low PSA
when diagnosed can actually be BAD news??
Thanks,

Hello all.  My father was diagnosed with PCa last week after a suspicious
DRE necessitated a biopsy.  
We have just received the good news that all of the scans came back
negative and that the tumor is completely confined and has not progressed

I'm a month shy of my 65th birthday.  Was recently diagnosed with PC.
My PSA is 6.2, Gleason 6, and T1C.  Tomorrow I'm going to a
Brachytherapy information class at Kaiser, a HMO.  Was wondering if
anyone who considered or has the permanent seed proceedure had any

I've been in Florida for a week and I come home to 302 messages?!?!?
Looks like a blitz read coming up.

SAN FRANCISCO, FEBRUARY 17: An innovative treatment for prostate
cancer that uses a person's own immune system has been found for the
first time to prolong the lives of patients with the disease, the most
common form of cancer among men.

Since robotic LRP is relatively new, it is hard to find a surgeon who has a
lot of experience with the procedure.  Also, it is hard to find one who
publishes their results in regards to continency, potency, positive margin
percentages, etc.  When you pull up the daVinci web site ...

Hi and thanks to all for your help and support.
I saw my uro today and surgery seemed to be the best choice for me. (age
56 T1c 3+4  God, how I wish that we ALL didn't know about this stuff)
Not just from his advice (He went through all of the options) but from

I am 54 years old with a psa level under 1.0.  My doctor told me i have
one nodule and wants to do a biopsy.  He also told me that the biopsy
is like trying to find a seed in a grapfruit so I am not to interested
in going thru the pain for a 50/50 shot or less to find possible or ...

Judge's career ended by allegations
By Julie E. Bisbee, The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — Jurors and others in Judge Donald Thompson's courtroom
kept hearing a strange whooshing noise, like a bicycle pump or maybe a

16 days after Robotic thing..2 days cath out.is it normal to have rectal
pain which seems to be behind tail bone ?  Also  not wearing Depends,
seem to be no leaking ? If I go out I put some Viva (Soft) papertowel
down there. Why is it so irritated, itchy, scaly down there ??? I keep

I.P.
Perhaps I was a little harsh using "rants" in my last post and I apologize
for that.  I recognize that you've contributed a lot to this group and I'd
like to see you around for a long time in the future. That was the gist of

I'm at ease with my decision to delay post-RP HT against my doctor's initial
advice. I posted my first, loooong rationale here, and it occasionally comes
up again, like this morning's sausage. Some people here agree with my
rationale, many don't . . . not that there's anything wrong ...